understandable
They were understandably unhappy about the show's poor ratings.
The nursing staff, understandably enough, wanted to check his identity before prescribing the drugs.
Since the attacks there has been a lot of fear, and understandably so.

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understandably | American Dictionary

understandably
adverb
us/ˌʌn·dərˈstæn·də·bli/
If you say that someone is understandably feeling a particular emotion, you mean that most people would feel the same way in that situation:
She was understandably upset when no one returned her call.

Examples of understandably

understandably
Understandably, such an ambitious undertaking raises a number of issues where one might want to challenge some of the assumptions the author makes.
Given the scope of possible entries, the coverage is understandably uneven.
The word please3 is understandably assigned by the authors to the neutral, unemotional area of interpersonal meaning.
Similarly, parents who are understandably worried about the influence of older peers in such neighborhoods may be overly restrictive and harsh in parenting their offspring.
Households living in the hills are therefore understandably reluctant to use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
They are understandably conservative about making explicit pronouncements of declarative consciousness in other species.
This withdrawal is motivated understandably by the prevailing vulgarity of today's standardised architectural practice.
Understandably, 73 % of the variance was explained by individual environmental influences in both genders.
The earliest of this musical research was understandably of a rather general nature.
Clitics understandably come in for fuller treatment (394-410) given the extensive attention they have attracted in recent years.
These registers were understandably thought to be wor th every bit their weight in gold as documents of ownership of proper ty.
Understandably, the live industry has devoted much of its policy energies to in attempts to restore the industry's older historic self.
However, this short and well-written article understandably has a limited carrying capacity.
Understandably, many prefer to ignore the issue, not to think about music at all.
Understandably, these professionals got annoyed that such popular accounts receive tremendous publicity when they are full of er rors of fact, inter pretation and emphasis.
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